Mallard ducks were fed diets containing various levels of technical DDT or chemically pure p,p'-DDT, or dieldrin. Either technical DDT or p,p'-DDT at 20 ppm or greater, or dieldrin at I 0 ppm caused a statistically significant reduction in e9gshell thickness, weight, and calcium. Shells of eggs from ducks fed 40 ppm of p,p -DDT were about 20% thinner than those from control ducks, and shells of...

Current Source Inverter(CSI) has applications in the area of current protection. For CSI fed loads, when connected at a point of common coupling (PCC), the system voltage, may not always be a pure sinusoidal waveform, due to distortions created by other loads at the PCC. This paper presents two simple controllers, namely the comparator type and PI type, to derive and generate a constant current...

Rats under thermoneutral conditions and fed mushroom-Se in dietary supplementation showed a significant fold increase (P<0.05) in mRNA expression relative to basal treatment (thermoneutral, control diet) of GPx-1 (2.98±0.82), GPx-2 (1.8±1.4), TrxR-1 (1.83±0.64) and SeP (2.77±0.92). Supplementation with α-tocopherol alone affected the expression of GPx-1 (1.83±0.82) and SeP (2.21±0.92). Rats sub...

The production of lipids by oleaginous yeast and fungi becomes more important because these lipids can be used for biodiesel production. To understand the process of lipid production better, we developed a model for growth, lipid production and lipid turnover in submerged batch fermentation. This model describes three subsequent phases: exponential growth when both a C-source and an N-source ar...

Hybridization array technology is increasingly being used for the analysis of gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It is a powerful technique in which the relative abundance of all the mRNA molecules transcribed under a particular condition may be simultaneously measured. However, most studies performed using this technique are carried out in batch culture where the growth rat...

Dynamic changes of physiological bioprocess parameters, e.g. a change in the specific growth rate μ, are frequently observed during industrial manufacturing as well as bioprocess development. A quantitative description of these variations is of great interest, since it can bring elucidation to the physiological state of the culture. The goal of this contribution was to show limitations and issu...

The present study deals with the batch and fed-batch mass production of Steinernema carpocapsae. S. carpocapsae is an entomoparasitic nematode that is used as a biological control agent of soil-borne crop insect pests. The ability and efficiency of fed-batch culture process was successful through the utilization of the nematode’s bacterial symbiont Xenorhabdus nematophila. Results from the fed-...